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  • noun Plural form of Albanian.

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Examples

  • That's presumably why immigration by Albanians is up by nearly 1,400% in ten years, as Albanians become prominent in certain areas of the British economy.

    Archive 2005-09-04 Laban 2005

  • That's presumably why immigration by Albanians is up by nearly 1,400% in ten years, as Albanians become prominent in certain areas of the British economy.

    Our Future Laban 2005

  • That's presumably why immigration by Albanians is up by nearly 1,400% in ten years, as Albanians become prominent in certain areas of the British economy.

    September 04, 2005 Laban 2005

  • Macedonians from Tetovo have been swapping their homes with Albanians from the Slavic town of Bitola, where there have been two waves of anti-Albanian rioting and looting.

    A Balkan Beirut 2007

  • Empire, the Illyrian population, gradually driven southward by the invading Slavs, became known as Albanians, were long subject to schismatic Constantinople, then fell under the sway of the Serbs, and finally became (1336-56) a province of the medieval Servian Empire under Tsar Stephen Duschan.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • What proportion of Slav blood there may be (one should perhaps say, is) in these Albanians is of purely ethnographical interest and politically of no importance.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Thousands of young Albanians have been named Bill or Hillary thanks to the Clinton administration’s role in rescuing ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo war.

    Someone Likes Him 2007

  • But the Albanians are the worst, apparently completely control the redlight district (soho and virtual) of London.

    Matthew Yglesias » Predictions I Hope Come True 2007

  • The message that the western media wants to get off is simple: Kosovo has ALWAYS been Albanian majority populated, since the Albanians are the decendants of Illyrians, and that the Serbs, through war and terror, have dominated the poor Albanians throughout history.

    A Photographer’s Journal: Kosovo, Year 1 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • The message that the western media wants to get off is simple: Kosovo has ALWAYS been Albanian majority populated, since the Albanians are the decendants of Illyrians, and that the Serbs, through war and terror, have dominated the poor Albanians throughout history.

    A Photographer’s Journal: Kosovo, Year 1 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

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